 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...read (for thou canft read) the lay, Grav'd on the ftoue beneath yon aged thorn.'1 THE EPITAPH. Here refts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | 1792 - 112 pages
...borne. Approach and read (for thou canft read) the lay, Grav'd on the Hone beneath yon aged thorn." Here refts his head upon the lap of earth , A youth to...him for her own. Large was his bounty , and his foul fmcere , Ileav'n did a recompence as largely fend: He gave to Mis'ry all he had, a tear; He gain'd... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1792 - 284 pages
...his head upon the lap of earth, •*••*• A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown ; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd...foul fincere, Heav'n did a recompence as largely fend : lie gave to mis'ry all he had, a tear ; He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wifli'd) a friend*. No... | |
 | 1793 - 542 pages
..." Here relts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own." The Latin lines are written in the margin of page 179, of Burton's Hiftory of Leiceiterihire, in the... | |
 | T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...loves to build and warble there, And little fos'.il-ps lightly print the gro-and. Fair Science frown'j not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. i to Large was his bounty, and his foul finccrc. Heav'n did a recompenee as largely fend: He gave to... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1036 pages
...refrs hit head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown, Fair Icience fruwn'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him...her own. Large was his bounty and his foul fincere, Heaven did a reo'mperfc as largely fend; He gave to mifciy all he had, a tear; He gain'd from heaven... | |
 | 1796 - 246 pages
...read (for thou canft read) the lay " Grav'd on the ftone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. HERE refts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to...humble birth. And melancholy mark'd him for her own, 8 Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere, Heaven did a recompenfe as largely fend; He gave to mifery... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...read (for thou canft read) the lav, Grav'd on the ftonc beneath yon aged thorn.1' THE EPITAPH. Here refts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown ; Fair Science frmvn'd not on his humble birth, And Melsncholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | Children's stories - 1797 - 350 pages
...build and warble there, " And little fooifteps lightly print the ground." THE EPITAPH. .• - \ * HERE refts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune...fincere ; Heav'n did a recompence as largely fend j , He gake to mis'ry (all he had) a tear ; ' He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wifh'd) a ,. friend.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...(for thou canft read) the lay " Grav'U on the ftone beneath yon' aged thorn."§ THE EPITAPH. tJERE refts his head upon the lap of Earth, A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. 1zo Large was his bounty,... | |
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Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere... 
